CROITOR DAVID

Painter

Life Events

1958 – He was born on March 27 in Suceava

1988 – He graduated from the Faculty of Geology at the University of Bucharest

He attended free painting and drawing courses with Dimitrie Loghin in Suceava in 1978 and with Aurel Aniţei in Bucharest in 1981

He lives in Vatra Dornei and works exclusively as an independent painter

Personal exhibitions:

1986 – starts at the Faculty of Geology in Bucharest

1987 – 1988 – opens two other painting exhibitions within the same faculty

1992 – exhibited at a personal painting exhibition at Horezu -Vâlcea

1993 – exhibites to Horezu -Vâlcea again

1999 – organizes together with the Cultural Foundation of Bucovina the first personal exhibition in Suceava

2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2008 – organizes personal painting exhibitions in Vatra Dornei, at the „White Salon”

2006 – opens a personal exhibition at the Book Galleries House, Iași

2008 – exposes at Ibăneşti – Mureş

organizes a personal painting exhibition in Suceava

2009 – opens a painting exhibition in Suceava

personal painting exhibition at Bistrița Năsăud at ArtGaleria

        – organizes a painting exhibition at the Book Galleries House in Iaşi

2010 – exhibits again at the „White Salon” in Vatra Dornei

2011 – organizes a painting exhibition in Suceava

2012 – opens a personal exhibition in Denmark, July 28th-August 30th

2013 – June, organizes a personal exhibition at the UAPR Galleries Oradea (Visual Arts Gallery)

August – personal exhibition at the „White Salon” in Vatra Dornei

exhibits in Luxembourg in October at the artistic events organized under the generic „L’automne roumain”

2015 – February – personal exhibition „The Architectures of the Soul”” opened at Elite Art Gallery, Bucharest

2016 – April – personal exhibition „Seasons and places”, varnished at the art galleries of Vatra Dornei City Hall

2017 – June, personal painting exhibition „Good”, opened at Elite Art Gallery, Bucharest

2018 – April – personal painting exhibition „Moods”, open to the History Museum, Suceava

Group exhibitions:

Since 2004 he has participated in several group exhibitions organized by the Association of Artists and Writers from Dorna Land, Vatra Dornei, Suceava and Cernăuți. He also participates in group exhibitions organized in Vatra Dornei, Suceava, by the „Nicolae Tonitza -TAG” Art Association in Suceava.

2008 – he participates with 5 paintings at a group exhibition in Bucharest

2011 – participates with 3 paintings at the exhibition „Traveling Through the World”, organized by the EliteProf Art Gallery in Bucharest

2012 – he participates with two paintings at the National Art Salon in Alba Iulia

2013 – participates in the „Winter Salon”, open exhibition at „Ștefan Luchian” Art Galleries in Botoșani

2014 – participates with 12 paintings at the exhibition „Romanian Artists at Sozopol”, 3rd edition, opened at the Bucharest Museum, during March

Every artist has a past behind him, on any artist there is a burden of a more or less internalized tradition, absorbed, sometimes even without knowing it, by the mere fact of assimilation and exercise of his profession. Art is an unlimited field of possibilities, and in art the taste is personal, being arbitrarily influenced by society, but which is formed over time, depending on context, the environment in which you are born, you live and you mature. David Croitor has carefully stored into this album a series of his most precious memories. He outlined them as best as he felt, more deeply, and in some cases transposed in an image there will be some ideas from his diary, carefully laid out in order to better understand the complex personality of this painter.
David Croitor is a constant, stable, self-taught artist, loial to his style and to the places he lives, works and creates, offering authenticity to everything he creates. The painting suite is a whole palette of colorful, light and candle-filled states of soul, which we can also enjoy through this art album.

David Croitor’s creation is so congenial, kind, from first contact, and this is due to the technical certainty and elegance of the representation, which makes it easy to transmit emotions without hesitation. Unity and complexity are defining elements of any artistic work, and the measure of an art object is often the result of the artist’s ability to combine the elements of his work into a unified whole with the imagination that adds variations within the basic unit. For the plastic artist there is always the issue of interpreting forms and colors in the sense of conceptual perception, this is necessary because, through vision, the artist is personal, not necessarily through subject. The infinite number of themes number are as old as the world, what he (the artist) is always renewing is the way (manner) in which they are presented.

Sensibility dominates all qualities of the artist David Croitor and through it he reveals the intimate sense of nature. It is noticed that the artist prefers predominantly unanimated nature, the interiors, the dead nature, the landscape, although rarely a figure is isolated in the picture, yet it is enlightened with the same importance as the surrounding objects. At the same time, his predilection towards the sensible flow of flowers is highlighted, and their play is distinguished between appearance, delicate essence and ephemeral source. The artist is closer to the nature, to which he remains conscientiously faithful, and he conceives in her contemplation, every painting he has to do, to an extremely high degree, with vigorous, safe and rich touches that stand out through image density, compositional balance, strong brush, consistent forms of color, shadow and light contrasts that create a special plastic vision.

Delia Ioana LEIZERIUC – art critic